Advertisement Continue reading the main story“It was like being in the center of a science fiction movie,” he said on his website. Fascinated by photography from a young age, he was developing color pictures by age 14. “I love black and white photography, but somehow I got seduced by color,” he told Photo District News in 2000. He served primarily at a combat photographic center in Astoria, Queens, where he ran the photo lab and experimented with a new type of color printing. He was occasionally sent by the Army on assignments, like photographing rockets in Florida; he also found subjects to photograph in Manhattan on weekends.

Source: New York Times September 22, 2017 19:21 UTC